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Besiders

Conversations with entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, architects, craftspeople, adventurers, and activists from all walks of life.

Individuals who think about, work with, and live alongside nature in unique ways, encouraging us to deepen our own reflections. Presented as Q&As or profiles.
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The Life of a Meal

Finding permanence in what’s meant to fade, beauty in what’s about to vanish.

Painting Like Breathing: Inside the Raw World of Self-Taught Artist Mephisto Bates

Mephisto Bates creates to free himself. And he invites anyone who looks at his work to do the same.

Magic Is Other People

The wonderfully multidisciplinary Montréal creator Khoa Lê opens up about his love of incongruity, intimacy, and celebrating our elders, in this interview from Issue 13 of BESIDE.

The Little Boy and the Sea

At the foot of the mountain in Bromont, Noah Forand runs fast but grows up slowly and a little differently than others. Without knowing it, he’s teaching his family and friends l’art de vivre.

Imprinting Memories with Gyotaku

Alexis Aubin-Laperrière has spent the last few years dedicating himself to gyotaku, a traditional printing technique from Japan. In the artist-fisherman’s studio, fish have a second life on washi.

This Designer Is Preserving the Old Ways of Making Furniture

Over three decades of producing ethically made furniture by hand, Heidi Earnshaw has remained committed to the abiding lessons of traditional craftsmanship.

More Beautiful with Age

In a garage that serves as his workshop, leather worker Patrice Didier — founder of The Robinson Company — celebrates the marks of time on objects designed to last for generations.

NEW ISSUE nº17

EPHEMERAL

In this issue, we explore the art of the moment, death, nature, and relationships that wither or transform. We question these notions through stories in which the impermanence of everything around us becomes a source of reflection on how we live, create, and engage in a constantly changing world.
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STAY 
IN NATURE

BESIDE offers nature-based experiences where comfort meets sincere hospitality.
Live to the rhythm of the wind in the trees, breathe in the fresh morning air and reconnect with what truly matters.
BOOK YOUR STAY
Objects that last. Design that grounds.
The BESIDE Collection brings together simple, lasting pieces rooted in the natural world. An invitation to live more intentionally — with beauty, purpose, and a deeper connection to what surrounds us.